"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair." - Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) British lexiographer.